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Challenging Oppression: A Critical Social Work Approach

Loula S. Rodopoulos
- 01 Jun 2003 - 
- Vol. 56, Iss: 2, pp 177-179
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This article is published in Australian Social Work.The article was published on 2003-06-01. It has received 105 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Critical social work & Oppression.

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The role of power in wellness, oppression, and liberation: the promise of psychopolitical validity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put forth a psychopolitical conceptualization of power, wellness, oppression, and liberation, which is designed to help community psychologists to put power issues at the forefront of research and action.
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Developing critically reflective practice

TL;DR: Reflective practice has become an influential concept in various forms of professional education, for example, in nursing and social work as discussed by the authors, however, there has been a common tendency for it to be oversimplified in practice, and furthermore, dominant understandings of reflective practice can themselves be criticised for lacking theoretical sophistication in some respects.
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Cultural Competency as New Racism: An Ontology of Forgetting

TL;DR: This paper argued that cultural competency resembles new racism both by otherizing non-whites and by deploying modernist and absolutist views of culture while not using racialist language.
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Toward a Continuum of Intersectionality Theorizing for Feminist Social Work Scholarship

TL;DR: In interdisciplinary feminist scholarship, intersectionality has been a primary framework for thinking about multiple identities and the interconnectedness of various systems of oppression in women as discussed by the authors, and intersectionality can be seen as a way of conceptualizing multiple identities.
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Self‐reflection in critical social work practice: subjectivity and the possibilities of resistance

TL;DR: This article explored the connection between reflection and a critical approach to social work practice, which is meant a refusal of/opposition to the interlocking relations of power that pervade social worker encounters with clients.
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The role of power in wellness, oppression, and liberation: the promise of psychopolitical validity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put forth a psychopolitical conceptualization of power, wellness, oppression, and liberation, which is designed to help community psychologists to put power issues at the forefront of research and action.
Journal ArticleDOI

Developing critically reflective practice

TL;DR: Reflective practice has become an influential concept in various forms of professional education, for example, in nursing and social work as discussed by the authors, however, there has been a common tendency for it to be oversimplified in practice, and furthermore, dominant understandings of reflective practice can themselves be criticised for lacking theoretical sophistication in some respects.
Journal ArticleDOI

Cultural Competency as New Racism: An Ontology of Forgetting

TL;DR: This paper argued that cultural competency resembles new racism both by otherizing non-whites and by deploying modernist and absolutist views of culture while not using racialist language.
Journal ArticleDOI

Toward a Continuum of Intersectionality Theorizing for Feminist Social Work Scholarship

TL;DR: In interdisciplinary feminist scholarship, intersectionality has been a primary framework for thinking about multiple identities and the interconnectedness of various systems of oppression in women as discussed by the authors, and intersectionality can be seen as a way of conceptualizing multiple identities.
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Self‐reflection in critical social work practice: subjectivity and the possibilities of resistance

TL;DR: This article explored the connection between reflection and a critical approach to social work practice, which is meant a refusal of/opposition to the interlocking relations of power that pervade social worker encounters with clients.